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Because I Said So [2007]
from Entertainment in Video
starring Diane Keaton, Mandy Moore, Tom Everett Scott, Piper Perabo
directed by Michael Lehmann

Features:

• Anamorphic
• PAL

Editorial Review:

Diane Keaton lights up the screen as an overbearing, matchmaking single mother in this slightly offbeat romantic comedy from director Michael Lehmann (HEATHERS, THE TRUTH ABOUT CATS AND DOGS). The film is a lot of fun, with both Keaton and Mandy Moore delivering energetic performances as a loveable and pretty believable mother-daughter team. After seeing two of her three stunning daughters (Piper Perabo, Lauren Graham) happily marry, Daphne Wilder (Keaton) focuses all her worries on Milly (Moore), her youngest, most insecure, and unlucky-in-love offspring. Twentysomething Milly has got her career as a chef figured out, but is clueless when it comes to love, attracting a never-ending slew of married, cheating, and closeted men. Taking matters into her own hands, Daphne places a personal ad for her daughter, interviewing the suitors herself and settling on one particularly promising young man named Jason. Meanwhile, clueless to her mother’s plans, Milly starts to fall for Johnny, a cute musician who in spite of treating Milly like gold, is hardly what Daphne has in mind for her daughter’s future. As Milly becomes increasingly involved with both men, Daphne must face whether maybe she could still have her own romantic life at age 60, instead of just living vicariously through her grown daughters.

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.0 / 5.0

• Drags on a little...
  Does drag on a little bit, but definately watchable.
  I found some parts hilereous, but this may be just because I could see so much of my mum in it...

• Fantastic Film - A great watch with the girls
  I have now seen this film 4 times with my Mom and Sister and we LOVE it.
  The acting is fab, the actresses play such a believable family. The weddings are stunning and its just fab - I don't know what more I can say.
  A girly film but saying that my brother and hubby really enjoyed it too.
  Watch it if you are getting married cause such dreamey weddings.

• Awful awful awful
  This truly was one of the worst films I have ever seen. Mandy Moore is potentially the worst actress in the world, but is given a reprieve by the considerably worse actress; Diane Keaton - whose hammy and overdramatic performance was cringeworthy throughout.
  The film has Piper Perabo on the cover but perhaps her 4 lines did not justify this. Piper is a talented actress who was woefully underused.
  I am genuinely a fan of this genre - but this is the least likeable film I have ever seen. Honestly.... more info

• Inappropriately certified 12
  Hmmm, after watching this with my daughter, now 13, she was 12 when her and a friend saw this at the cinema, I have to say that this film is inappropriately classified as 12.
  Although I enjoyed the film, I found the talk about female orgasms, and what it feels like, very uncomfortable, knowing that my daughter was watching and listening avidly. As I said, she was 12 when she saw this at the cinema, and probably I was at fault for letting her go, but NEVER did I expect the talk about sexual antics to... more info

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